Ideological and Cultural Pillars for the “American Century”? American Studies and the Early Cold War, 1939-1951

Francisco J. Rodríguez Jiménez, George Washington University

The U.S. and Dutch Anti-Communism

David J. Snyder, University of South Carolina

An American “Lenin Institute”? Congress and the Failed Initiative to Found an Anticommunist “Freedom Academy,” 1959-1967

Andreas Etges, Freie Universität Berlin

Comment: Alessandro Brogi

Panel 14: The American Left and Global Revolution since the 1960s

Chair: Van Gosse, Franklin and Marshall College

Take Me To Havana: Airline Hijacking and the Allure of Revolutionary Cuba in 1960s America

Teishan Latner, University of California, Irvine

One, Two, Many Revolutions: Global Revolution and the American Left in the Vietnam Era

Caitlin Casey, Harvard University

Revolution and Reactions in Central America in the 1980s: Responses by the Reagan Administration and the Central America Solidarity Networks

Francis Robert Shor, Wayne State University

Comment: Martin Klimke, New York University Abu Dhabi

PLEASE NOTE: THE WELCOME RECEPTION AND PLENARY WILL TAKE PLACE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT.

Buses will begin departing from the back lobby of the hotel (parking garage side) at 5:30 PM to transport everyone to the University of Connecticut campus. The buses will return to the Marriott Hartford Downtown at the conclusion of the plenary session. If you wish to drive yourself, a handout with driving directions and parking information will be available at the registration table and online on the conference website.

WELCOME RECEPTION: 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM, Student Union Lobby

Sponsored by the University of Connecticut

PLENARY SESSION: 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM, Student Union Theatre

Explaining the History of American Foreign Relations: Reflecting on the 1991 and 2004 Editions While Looking Forward

Chair: Frank Costigliola, University of Connecticut

Discussants: Thomas G. Paterson, University of Connecticut

Michael J. Hogan, University of Illinois

Nick Cullather, Indiana University

Christopher Dietrich, University of Texas at Austin

Mary L. Dudziak, University of Southern California

Robert McMahon, Ohio State University

Emily S. Rosenberg, University of California at Irvine

Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, Ohio State University

FRIDAY 29 JUNE 2012

Registration: 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM, Ballroom Foyer

Book Exhibit: 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM, Ballroom Foyer

Diplomatic History Editorial Board Meeting: 7:30 AM – 9:00 AM

Continental Breakfast: 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM, Ballroom C

Sponsored by the Teaching Committee

Please join members of the Teaching Committee for an informal breakfast and an opportunity to talk with other SHAFR members about teaching strategies, classroom resources, educational technology, and other pedagogical issues.

Session III: 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM (Panels 15-22)

Panel 15: U.S. – Middle East Relations during the Late Cold War

Chair: Peter L. Hahn, Ohio State University

American Evangelicals, Lebanese Militias and Media

Laila Ballout, Northwestern University

Challenging the Realpolitik: The Impact of Human Rights on U.S.-Iran Relations, 1973-1976

Vittorio Felci, University of Florence

Fears of Dependence: Arab Oil in American Politics during the 1970s

Victor McFarland, Yale University

Gunboats, Diplomacy, and After Hours: U.S.-Israeli Relations, late 1970s-early 1980s

Panel 29: U.S. Empire in National, International, and Transnational Histories

Chair: Marilyn B. Young, New York University

The Wilsonian Seduction: Nation and Empire in U.S. Global Histories

Paul Kramer, Vanderbilt University

The Imperial Presidency and its Critics: The Domestic Politics of American Empire

Michael Allen, Northwestern University

The Betrayal of U.S. Exceptionalism: The Arab Nakba in Palestine and the Invention of U.S. Empire in Lebanese Imaginations

Maurice Jr. Labelle, University of Akron

Comment: Naoko Shibusawa, Brown University

Panel 30: Rethinking the Cold War in Japan

Chair: Andrew J. Rotter, Colgate University

Rethinking the “Reverse Course”: Taking off a Cold War Lens

Hajimu Masuda, National University of Singapore

The San Francisco Peace Treaty: Transforming U.S. –Japanese Relations from Postwar to Cold War

Jennifer M. Miller, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Rethinking the U.S. Japan Alliance in the Aftermath of the 1960 Security Treaty Crisis

Nick Kapur, Harvard University

The Revolution from Above Betrays the Revolution from Below in U.S.-Allied Occupied Japan: The “Reverse Course” and Korean-Japanese Anti-War Solidarity during the Korean War

Deokhyo Choi, Cornell University

Comment: Hiroshi Kitamura, College of William and Mary

COFFEE BREAK: 3:00 PM – 3:30 PM

Coffee break sponsored by Cornell University Press

Cornell University Press is pleased to announce that three new volumes in the United States in the World series are available this spring. Please join series editors Mark Philip Bradley, David C. Engerman, and Paul A. Kramer as they celebrate Dirk Bönker, Militarism in a Global Age, Jason Colby, The Business of Empire, and Seth Jacobs, The Universe Unraveling, at Cornell’s table in the Book Exhibit, located in the Ballroom Foyer.

Session V: 3:30 PM – 5:30 PM (Panels 31-38)

Panel 31: Connecting With the Public: Federal Government Outreach Programs in a “Revolutionary” Era

Chair: David Herschler, Office of the Historian, Department of State

Robert J. Dalessandro, U.S. Army Center of Military History

David Hatch, National Security Agency

Kristin Ahlberg, Office of the Historian, Department of State

Jessie Kratz, National Archives and Records Administration

Panel 32: Humanitarian Intervention and the Spanish-American War

Chair: Reut Yael Paz, Humboldt University of Berlin

Humanity’s “Other”: The Changing Image of the U.S. Intervention in Cuba, 1898

Mark Swatek-Evenstein

The Practice of Humanitarian Intervention in the 19th Century: The United States and the European Powers Compared

Fabian Klose, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität

“Fleeing Women and Children”: Gender and the Rhetoric of Humanitarian Intervention

Jessica C. E. Gienow-Hecht, University of Cologne

Comment: Reut Yael Paz

Panel 33: “My country right or wrong…but when wrong to be set right”: Dissent and U.S. Foreign Policy in the 1960s and 1970s

Chair: Jonathan Nashel, Indiana University, South Bend

The Veteran Voice in American Foreign Policy: From Silence to Dissent, 1961-1971

Anna Armentrout, University of California, Berkeley

Morality and Foreign Policy during the 1960s: The Search for a Humane Diplomacy

Neither Jingoes nor Pacifists: Legitimizing International Law through Professional Manhood, 1905-1917

Benjamin A. Coates, American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Fortunes of a Profession: American Foundations and the International Law Community, 1910-1935

Katharina Rietzler, Cambridge University

Comment: Mary L. Dudziak, University of Southern California

LUNCHEON: 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM, BALLROOM C

Pre-registration and tickets required.

George F. Kennan: The Promises – and Pitfalls – of Authorized Biography

John Lewis Gaddis, Yale University

Session VII: 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM (Panels 47-54)

Panel 47: Debating “Good Occupations” Uplift, Humanitarianism, and the Problem of Policing in American Occupations

Chair: Mary Renda, Mount Holyoke College

Military Government: A “Good Occupation”?

Susan Carruthers, Rutgers University, Newark

Modernizing Repression: Police Training and Political Violence in the Occupations of Japan and South Vietnam

Jeremy Kuzmarov, University of Tulsa

“A Precedent Worth Setting”: The U.S. Military and Humanitarian Operations

Jana K. Lipman, Tulane University

Comment: Christopher Capozzola, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Panel 48: Roundtable: New Research in the History of Women’s Transnational and International Social Movements: Using the New Online Archive and Database, Women and Social Movements, International — 1840 to present

Chair: Kathryn Kish Sklar, State University of New York, Binghamton

Women in the WIDF (or: The Long Arm of HUAC: Finding the Women in the WIDF)

Tempest in the Rice Pot: Atlantic Appetite and American Agribusiness in Revolutionary Foreign Policy

Denna Clymer, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville

Comment: Robyn Shotwell Metcalfe

Panel 62: Modernization’s Discontents: Alternate Visions of U.S. Modernization in the Middle East

Chair: Bradley R. Simpson, Princeton University

Building a New Jerusalem: The YMCA Re-envisions Palestine, 1920-1936

Michael Limberg, University of Connecticut

Whose Modernization is it, Anyway? American Books and Modernization in Nasser’s Cairo

Erin Glade, University of Chicago

Competing Visions of Modernization: The Kennedy Administration and Iran

Matthew Shannon, Temple University

A Toast to Progress: The U.S.-Saudi Special Relationship in the 1970s

Paul Reed Baltimore, University of California, Santa Barbara

Comment: Sheyda Jahanbani, University of Kansas

CLOSING RECEPTION: 5:45 PM – 7:45 PM

Reception at the Old State House, 800 Main Street, Hartford.

Please join us as we close out the conference with some light refreshments and a tour of Hartford’s Old State House. Tickets are not required and there is no fee to attend.

Walking directions: Exit the hotel to the right onto Columbus Avenue. Cross Grove Street and pass the science museum. Turn left onto State Street and the Old State House is straight ahead up two blocks. It is a 5-10 minute walk.